OpenGlyph — Catalogue of the American Public DomainJurisdiction: United StatesRev. 2026.08
Images / art

Two archives, queried live.

Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 12 shown for “Leucospermum stenanthum Schltr.” — 40 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-09 06:05 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Leucospermum stenanthum Schltr.

Leucospermum stenanthum Schltr.

Artist not stated in the record · 27 --- ----

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Leucospermum lemmerzianum Schltr.

Leucospermum lemmerzianum Schltr.

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Dec 1896

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Leucospermum glaberrimum Schltr.

Leucospermum glaberrimum Schltr.

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Sep 1896

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Polygonatum stenanthum Nakai

Polygonatum stenanthum Nakai

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Jul 1899

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vincetoxicum stenanthum Standl.

Vincetoxicum stenanthum Standl.

Artist not stated in the record · 1928

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allium stenanthum Drew

Allium stenanthum Drew

Artist not stated in the record · 20 Jul 1888

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chloroleucon mangense var. leucospermum (Brandegee) Barneby & J.W. Grimes

Chloroleucon mangense var. leucospermum (Brandegee) Barneby & J.W. Grimes

Artist not stated in the record · 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chloroleucon mangense var. leucospermum (Brandegee) Barneby & J.W. Grimes

Chloroleucon mangense var. leucospermum (Brandegee) Barneby & J.W. Grimes

Artist not stated in the record · 12 May 1901 to 14 May 1901

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chloroleucon mangense var. leucospermum (Brandegee) Barneby & J.W. Grimes

Chloroleucon mangense var. leucospermum (Brandegee) Barneby & J.W. Grimes

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Feb 1956

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chloroleucon mangense var. leucospermum (Brandegee) Barneby & J.W. Grimes

Chloroleucon mangense var. leucospermum (Brandegee) Barneby & J.W. Grimes

Artist not stated in the record · May 1917

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chloroleucon mangense var. leucospermum (Brandegee) Barneby & J.W. Grimes

Chloroleucon mangense var. leucospermum (Brandegee) Barneby & J.W. Grimes

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chloroleucon mangense var. leucospermum (Brandegee) Barneby & J.W. Grimes

Chloroleucon mangense var. leucospermum (Brandegee) Barneby & J.W. Grimes

Artist not stated in the record · 24 Sep 1977

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

Where these records came from.

Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.

  • The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field: isPublicDomain. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2940 matched · 40 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-09 06:05 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.

Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.

An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.